A tour bus carrying 30 Chinese tourists left
Las Vegas in the morning and set off through the other worldly red-rock landscape of southern
Utah toward Bryce National Park.
When he yanked the steering wheel to put the bus back onto the highway Friday morning, the momentum sent the bus rolling down into a guard rail, leaving carnage and debris in its wake on a two-lane highway, authorities said.
As is common in tour buses, not everyone was wearing a seatbelt when the bus from a tour company based in Southern
California rolled, crushing its roof and ramming the guard rail's vertical posts into the cab, Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Nick Street said.